Levitating the Pentagon: Exorcism as Politics, Politics as Exorcism

On 21 October 1967 Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Ed Sanders of the band The Fugs, and others, organized an "exorcism" of the Pentagon in which several thousand demonstrators participated. Most historians have regarded this event as "a put on" or at best as "performance...

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Main Author: Laycock, Joseph P. 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2011]
In: Implicit religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 295-318
Further subjects:B Ginsberg
B Magic
B Exorcism
B SOCIAL reality
B New Left
B GINSBERG, Allen, 1926-1997
B Vietnam
B Protest
B HOFFMAN, Abbie, 1936-1989
B PENTAGONS
B MAILER, Norman, 1923-2007
B Pentagon
B Vietnam War, 1961-1975
B 1960s
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